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• Heaven to me is percussion and bass, a screaming guitar and a burbling Hammond B-3 organ. It's a soup I… — Dan Aykroyd
• I wish I could play bass like Larry Graham or Bootsy Collins. My God, I'd give up just about everything… — Anthony Bourdain
• I just like to catch fish, I don't care if it weighs half a pound or 10 pounds. But I… — Terry Bradshaw
• Black Sabbath was written on bass: I just walked into the studio and went, bah, bah, bah, and everybody joined… — Geezer Butler
• I like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass. — David Byrne
• Bass players are always the intellectual kind, but nobody knows it. — Stanley Clarke
• Because nobody wanted to play bass, I was instantly in a band. — Les Claypool
• In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since… — Les Claypool
• Actually, there was another band where we were three girls, around '84 when I met John Zorn, called Sunset Chorus.… — Ikue Mori
• Could have called back just to say som' I'm fall back in the bass drum — Nicki Minaj
• Louis Armstrong changed all the brass players around, but after Bird, all of the instruments had to change - drums,… — Cootie Williams
• Even if chords are simple, they should rub. They should have dissonances in them. I've always used a lot of… — Jimmy Webb

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